it's a big. tanks and armored vans were deployed at the scene of fierce clashes between pro and anti president protesters in egypt's capital cairo five people were killed and many more injured overnight. israel looks in danger of losing its top european allies i'm angela merkel warns benjamin netanyahu only is facing political isolation over the sub on the settlement question palestine statehood was recently upgraded in the way. the u.s. is treasures its legal tentacles as well as the e.u. as a new report shows washington can potentially x. is there any european citizens private information stored online shielded by an antiterrorism law.

you're watching r t a live from moscow with me to on monday good to have you with us this afternoon egypt seen as some of the bloodiest street battles assumes an uprising against president morsi began two weeks ago at least life people have been killed and hundreds injured as pro and anti morsi protesters clashed outside the presidential palace tanks and armored vehicles were deployed to the scene after sporadic fighting continued into this morning the violence that started when thousands of the president's supporters moved into crush a sit in obvious opponents karo based reporter bell drew says the violence has also spread outside the capital. one member of tahrir square where scenes. there have been. on the square here behind me on the side the presidential. as i type reports

the caches have broken out during the day but basically we've seen very violent scenes overnight my colleague tom barton was that reporting from the scene we're about as close as we can expect to the fighting here in central cairo near the presidential palace a few. muslim brotherhood supporters up there is pelting stones to see morsy persisters here who are giving as much stones back to the crowds are flowing to and fro injuries are going hard but in their stores with head wounds and other wounds from the flying stones moments of cut tails are being thrown the buildings were in a state more alert set on the fact so this immensely violent situation i've been just send it from an earlier in the day when the prayer supporters arrived at the un team a chain of protesters camped dismantled it i'm attached to them this is the result i want to take a take the question that wasn't on states which was on the streets who were seeing

violence in other cities like a series and in particular the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood's have been attacked which is which has already happened last week during these clashes between rival protest groups following mostly is what they called power grab concession that gratian we would himself sweeping powers and of course the constitution which is being put to referendum possibly next week which many of the opposition groups sees it to see that president morsi has yet to come forward and address his opposition which has been one of the major criticisms of him in addition there's been some reaction from his aides several members of the presidential committee have quit in protest of this in addition we've had reports he says news wires that the interior ministry is calling this a civil war although i think this is probably an overstatement but definitely we are seeing unprecedented levels of violence between citizens including possibly you supplied i'm going to sion and definite use of guns. although in journalism ramsey

burgess says the under us is the fallout from last year's revenue which has taken on a life of its a. i think what's happened in egypt is not revolution if it's not civil war it's certainly not tribulation the revolution in the popular sense we haven't really seen that what is underway in egypt is that the. those who brought the revolution and those who succeeded along with the revolution to achieve many of its objectives are now divided and and now they are divided around political and partly ideological principles it's not exactly value driven it's politically driven type of clashes it's not a revolution but rather the revolution is right now feeding on itself and it's eating its own children in my opinion in order for the political elites for various political parties to concentrate their power and their hold over power in egypt.

fear is in the air and the headlines over syria's conflict in chemical weapons plans have later in the program report on the nerve agent remains a racing through the media which critics say is another great sympathy backing for the rebels. there was a frosty atmosphere between israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and one of his close as european allies german chancellor angela merkel as they began their annual meeting in berlin letting out said he was disappointed over germany's choice to abstain on palestine statehood bid in the un general assembly but a sign was granted number of service said state setters at the end of november but less so the day after that israel announced plans to build a three thousand homes on palestinian land a move condemned by germany and the rest of the despite of this massive military trade deals between europe and israel are still expected to go ahead on the other

hand free trade with the e.u. is something the supposedly sovan palestine is allowed to have as out is people all over reports. produce of israel except this is it is real this is the jordan valley in the west bank and this form is deemed illegal under international law the european union imports around three hundred million dollars worth of products from here each year now a group of twenty two n.g.o.s from across europe is looking to highlight the issue and it's published a report in which it claims imports make the settlements viable because they are produced in illegal settlements which are contrary to international humanitarian law should be bound out of the european union now if this is not possible at least consumers have to have the possibility to. decide for themselves if they want to buy products which have been produced in the eagles your sea farm is this law. and

he is much concerned by the thoughts of european n.g.o.s he says he's here because his government told him it was ok to be here. because i was told here you can. circle where i was told i could if tomorrow the state of israel tells me it's time to go i'll go i'm told i'm an occupier when i got here i was nothing if you and we made this a killing in denmark and the united kingdom goods coming from settlements in the west bank already has to be marked differently to denote that it's not from israel the collective n.g.o.s want to see this implemented europe wide here in europe there are many people with ties to the middle east region and they want to make sure they know exactly where their produce is coming from this is are you sure this comes from spain. is a palestinian living in germany she has family in the west bank and says the

israeli checkpoints mean palestinian farmers are losing out to the settlers even even the few things when they get jordan they really checkpoints keep them at the checkpoints for days under the sun. and then you can't leave the rest of us anymore those behind the reporting to trade between the settlements in europe say they aren't trying to organize any kind of witch hunt we're not talking about boycotting jews over here we're not talking about even boycotting israel itself we're talking about making a difference differentiating between. legal israeli products which should be bought by european citizens as much the course the short and second products which are totally illegal and should be banned and people should not buy peter or other r.t. belin. just ahead an r t it's a gloomy diagnosis for british taxpayers the country's sickly economy gets an outside prescription from the finance minister but the public being force fed tax

hikes and spending cuts. information that the europeans keep stored online for example on so-called cloud service could be accessed by u.s. law enforcement agencies that's according to a report issued by one university in amsterdam which revealed the antiterrorism patriot act to give washington legal grounds to bypass europe's privacy laws one of the all those all of the report at salon back says such a great issue of privacy would never have been possible in the old offline world normally in an offline world you would have cooperation between governments that would respect international human rights standards but as these companies in the cloud are. conducting systematic best business new united states direct actions warrant all over the world internet surveillance is increasing and it's quite

breakneck speed so a solution would be. to at least try and come to some international standard of how to resolve all this and what this privacy mean i know that this is a very ambitious goal but as we all move into the internet and as we all know becomes a part of our daily lives free speech and privacy online is becoming ever more important. syria's chemical weapons arsenal is again though whipping up a frenzy at least in the us media and unnamed american official has reportedly said damascus had begun arming its chemical stockpiles let's not go to our correspondent in tel aviv or policy live with us of paula what can you tell us about these chemical weapons rumors. well to start with the point needs to be made that these rumors are verified as of yet they are just allegations what they do suggest is that syria's military has been mixing chemical weapons and loading them

into bombs the allegations suggest that the syrian president bashar assad is reportedly planning to use these on his own people now the reports say that syrian forces have been loading bombs with components of salman gas which is a deadly nerve gas and that they have sixty days in which they can use these bombs until the chemical mixture expires and has to be destroyed this comes as the u.s. military is making contingency plans should the syrian president bashar assad suddenly leave with the u.s. sources saying that they are aware that assad has received numerous asylum offers at the same time the united states has reportedly deployed the u.s. eisenhower start strike group which went through the suez canal from the persian gulf over the weekend and we understand according to reports that it is making its way to the syrian coast and it has been throughout this week now on board on eight fighter bomber squadrons of the seven at the same time there are eight thousand sailors airmen and marines and joins the u.s.

i were german and really group which are really carries some two and a half thousand marines now what this does indicate this latest development is that the united states now stands ready for direct military intervention in the syrian conflict that is what we're hearing from various sources and various commentators who have been following the story. closely what it also indicates is that increasingly we are hearing from all quarters on the global community the idea that intervention in syria could be an option i just want to remind you that when we saw foreign intervention in iraq at that stage it was only allegations that the country had chemical that the country had weaponry that the country had the capability of carrying out what with that time was called weapons of mass destruction destruction and on those allegations alone there was foreign intervention so certainly the eyebrows are being raised in international community as to whether or not we're going to see intervention here in syria well it's interesting that these rumors

keep coming but it's not really the first time syria's alleged chemical weapons have been in the sport isn't it. no it certainly isn't the first time that we're seeing these allegations of chemical weapons we within the hands of the syrian army and the syrian government being bought up we are witnessing an increased media frenzy over this whole issue and also want to bring the attention to the fact that all these allegations are just coming from unnamed u.s. officials in fact we think it's only one official so there's no verification or any kind of confirmation as to whether or not the source in fact is telling the truth the u.s. in the past has gone the line on syria having access to chemical weaponry in fact the united states has said that chemical weapon use would be acceptable and it would trigger greater western intervention in the conflict this does again seem to suggest that this could be a precursor to foreign intervention it could be used as

a pretext also to provide weapons for rebels who are meeting on the twelfth of december in morocco. put us there are two news correspondent thank you for giving us insight on these allegations. there was a breeze a chinese doll in made labor scheme on its own soil we'll tell you about probably wouldn't spending tens of millions of dollars on lobbying stricter laws here in the biggest companies to do business that's after the break. looking at some drugs you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh oh it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as australia canada and the u.s. they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open

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well. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operation. you're watching r t while the rest of the u.s. may be struggling for work of there's currently a real boom of job offers for inmates in the country but state and some of the

biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available workforce with tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep their jails full artie's granted she can takes up the story . in the us the market for cheap labor is booming behind bars in the last fifteen years partnership between prisons and private manufacturers has increased significantly there are becoming america's very own chinese style manufacturing line behind prison walls prisons in fact advertise themselves as such as an alternative to outsourcing cheap labor to china or elsewhere on the web we came across this pitch that prisons prepared to persuade private sector companies to come and do business with them take a look. there is not enough folks that will do this type of work in this country so therefore we're bringing bringing back this industry that historically has been going out of this country and we're putting it you know inside the laws and it's

absolutely a perfect idea. of a workforce that is not the kind of problems or baby sitting senator always hearing you're always going to learn. your business or lead a wide variety of industries take advantage of prison labor among many other things prisoners make clothing textiles electronics furniture and even solar panels hundreds of companies have used prison labor directly or through subcontractors including microsoft boeing starbucks tory secret and others by federal tax. rate compensated up to forty percent of the way you generate tax payers to be. here and everything. work in prison is mandatory and the choice many inmates have is whether to work for a government run prison industry for less than a dollar an hour or private one for

a minimum wage or for around six dollars a unit cory's a government owned corporation that uses prison labor to produce all kinds of goods mainly for other government agencies one hundred seventy five different types of products and services you see the variety listed on. web site they to partner up with private firms now last year unicorns revenue reached nine hundred million dollars as far as private prisons are concerned two of the country's biggest prison corporations made three point three billion dollars last year alone private prisons are traded on the new york stock exchange they are for profit companies and the savings that they reap from using inmate labor. go to their bottom line it's money they otherwise don't have to. keep. large prison populations and harsh sentences result in greater profits america's three major private prison companies spend around forty five million dollars over the past ten years on

lobbying state and federal governments for supporting immigrant detention mandatory minimum sentences three strikes laws and other legislative measures that contribute to the growth of america's gigantic prison population one can argue about the many causes and effects of america's iraq incarceration rate but since prisons became a for profit industry in the us thirty years ago the number of prisoners has gone up dramatically not to say that it will be only cause behind the spike but many argue will support of it and now with the cheap labor market expanding behind american bars one is wondering whether the justice system in the us is adopting market values in washington i'm going to check up. on our website the cable company which wants to know you better that that's all combines all the pain for equipment that will be watching you while you watch t.v. it's all designed to better target you with advertising. and do you as the man who

says taser international office of police electric eugene in his own home had a long tall upside for that animal story. the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kandahar. trying to corporations rule the day. of service seems to be the future for britain at least where the government extended its massive cuts program for five more years a defined finance minister waved away immediate protests saying tax hikes would help heal the country's ailing economy further has more now on london's proposed secure oil everyone now madly picking their way through the facts and figures and

wow was there a lot of thinking is one thing that was very very clear and that's in the u.k. is certain face even more austerity know what those figures showed us was that the u.k. economy is going to shrink by not point one percent in five years twenty twelve now it sounds like a small amount but of course no sign of that all important of course in fact what we're seeing is that borrowing has gone up we think that the debt has risen and fallen and most crucially i think is probably the fact that the government have moved reduction target so we're now facing an extended austerity program that's going to take it's right away three to twenty eighteenth's a pretty gloomy outlook and this is what we were expecting a bit of course that's going to really not be what millions of families all across the getting to know one thing here and of course this is really going to bring in real. internet security as well as the future of the had to his community is under

the microscope in the latest edition of our breaking the search which is coming up in a few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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civilians and destruction of private property all with absolute impunity not only is blackwater playing a huge role in up keeping the troops in afghanistan i also learned last month that the shady douche bags are part of the pentagon's plan to expand its global spy network in the coming years so let's keep our eyes on this criminal enterprise but for now let's break the set. sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures in an era where corporations can rape and pillage the planet in which we live with zero accountability sometimes it takes people like you and me to step up to the plate while hard core environmental activist tim de christopher is one of those people in two thousand and eight he posed as a buyer for an oil and gas drilling auction for the utah bureau of.